Smestow YR8 Football tournament perform fantastically well at the trust football tournament. On Friday 8th May, 9 YR8 boys and 2 YR7s travelling across to Etone to compete at the annual trust football tournament. A special mention must go to Lucas YR7 and Prince YR7 who were playing up a year group on the day and did fantastically well in what was difficult conditions for them but they really stood up to the challenge and let their talent shine through. A massive shoutout to Muhammad YR8 who was named Player of the Tournament by Mr Webb as before the tournament, he volunteered to go in goal for the team and he really was brilliant in every game we played especially the first two games of the group stage where he kept the team in with a shout of getting something from them. He made some fantastic saves and really developed the more and more into the tournament, performing excellently. Like Muhammad, the whole team grew into the tournament and with the final game of the group stage we got a 1-0 win against Bloxwich thanks to a brilliant free kick from Gurjot YR8 that was too powerful for the goalkeeper and then the whole team (subs included) worked really hard to hold onto the win by showing excellent work rate and togetherness.
After the lunch break we played in our final game which was play offs for everyone to see where each team would finish in the final standings. We came up against Dame Elizabeth which was a very competitive game and could have gone either way, our lads really stepped up and played some fantastic football in the right way and working together as a team.
An epic effort from everyone throughout the whole day resulted in us coming 6th in the tournament. The pupils should be really proud of their efforts and showed themselves and Smestow in an excellent light.
